analysing the key influences (people and events) on a person’s identity by interviewing an older German speaker or researching the life of a famous person

explaining important cultural information that a German-speaking visitor would need to know to behave appropriately on a visit to Australia, such as when participating in a meal with a host family, attending an Australian Rules football or rugby game or a barbecue, for example, in a blog or short film clip

developing an annotated digital itinerary of events for a visitor from a German-speaking country to give them a sense of Australian cultural diversity

This is a collection of digital activities and printable worksheets introducing how to ask for and tell the time in Italian, both in exercise form and in the context of describing daily routines and habits. It focuses on the core questions 'Che ore sono?', 'Che ora è?' and 'A che ora ...?', and contextualises the language ...

This is a collection of digital activities and printable worksheets for the Italian language curriculum that focuses on how to describe rooms, furniture and family activities and to say where common objects are using adverbs such as 'davanti' and 'dietro' and prepositions such as 'su' and 'tra'. It provides opportunities ...

The Italian-English free dictionary app is an interactive searchable dictionary tool, which provides translations for over 34,000 words and expressions, and includes usage examples, audio pronuciation, verb conjugator, a travel phrasebook and a quiz generator to assess own progress. The app also features a text-to-speech ...

The Italian-English free dictionary app is an interactive searchable dictionary tool, which provides translations for over 34,000 words and expressions, and includes usage examples, audio pronuciation, a verb conjugator, a travel phrasebook and a quiz generator to assess progress. The app also features a text-to-speech ...

The Italian Essentials app provides an interactive searchable dictionary for most common Italian words and verbs, with audio-visual support, based on flashcards, and categorised in topics, for example, greetings, colours, children, schools, food. Multiple choice as well as audio quizzes keep track of the users' vocabulary ...

Look through a photo album showing everyday life in Indonesia. See photos of activities such as making batik by hand, winnowing rice and selling dried fish. Match each photo to a brief description of the activity. Answer a question about each activity. Complete a quiz that includes questions on all of the photos. This learning ...

This clip is an excerpt from 'Joan Winch' (26 min), an episode of 'Australian biography' series 9, produced in 2003. In the clip Joan Winch - a Nyungar-Martujarra Elder, nurse, midwife, academic and educator - talks about setting up an Aboriginal health workers' program in Western Australia. She asked the community to nominate ...

This is a collection of digital activities and printable worksheets focusing on how to ask, say and write the date in Italian using a variety of text types such as letters, notes, diary pages and calendars. It provides a range of focal questions such as 'Che giorno è oggi?', 'Quanti ne abbiamo?' and 'Qual è la data oggi?' ...

These lesson plans, introduced by an overview mapping document, are twelve progressive units of work that constitute a beginner to intermediate course in Italian, covering themes such as the school system, describing people, literature, weather reports, cities, the planetary system, immigration, time and money. The plans ...

This collection of interactive and printable resources consolidates and revises the vocabulary and structures used to introduce and describe yourself and others: name, age, address, physical features, likes, dislikes, hobbies, school, family, friends and pets. It provides a variety of text types, and focuses on all macro ...

This is a collection of digital activities and printable worksheets for the Italian language curriculum focusing on what foods and drinks people like most, eat at mealtimes, and buy and cook, and on common instructions in recipes. It introduces the words for many foods and drinks, and words and expressions used for mealtimes. ...

This is a collection of digital activities and printable worksheets for the Italian language curriculum introducing the days of the week, the months, and festivities such as Pasqua and Ferragosto. Activities are mostly in cultural contexts that include what people do, where they go and what they celebrate on specific days. ...

This is a collection of digital activities and printable worksheets for the Italian curriculum, focusing on how people travel (for example, 'vado a piedi', 'in auto', 'in tram', 'in treno'), means of transport ('prendo il ...') and how to ask when a train leaves, using the 24-hour clock. It introduces the core questions ...

This is a collection of digital activities and printable worksheets for the Italian language curriculum that introduces the present perfect of regular and irregular verbs, and its use in recounting recent events. It includes sections on regular verbs with 'avere', irregular past participles, verbs with 'essere' and reflexive ...

This resource is about translating from English to Italian short texts that describe people, places and events, and to execute simple transactions. The resource has four sections: two are about people and objects, and two are about events, routines and ordering and eating food. Students are given multiple options as solutions, ...

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